Smith+Nephew
Field Asset Specialist, International
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Life. Unlimited.
At Smith+Nephew we design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living.
Are you excited by the opportunity to shape how a global organisation optimises performance and drives profitability? As a Field Asset Specialist, International, you will play a critical role in transforming asset management across our International Orthopaedics business. This is a high-impact, strategic position where your analytical mindset, commercial understanding, and ability to lead cross-functional initiatives will directly influence performance across multiple markets.
Based in Spain or Poland, you will work with international teams and bring meaningful change to how we operate.
What will you be doing?
In this role, you will:
- Lead the transformation of our cost to serve model across key markets.
- Dive deep into asset performance, building a clear understanding of utilisation, costs, and value drivers, and identifying opportunities to improve efficiency and profitability.
- Design and execute pilot initiatives that test new service models, balancing financial outcomes with customer needs.
- Track results, measure impact, and refine your approach, before scaling successful models across regions.
- Work closely with commercial, supply chain, finance, and planning teams, translating insights into actionable strategies and ensuring alignment across functions.
- Help embed new ways of working by developing frameworks, tools, and playbooks that allow local markets to sustain improvements independently.
This is a role where you will combine data, strategy, and collaboration to drive lasting business impact.
What will you need to be successful?
To succeed in this role, you will bring:
- A strong combination of analytical capability, commercial acumen, and the ability to influence stakeholders in a complex environment.
- Comfort working with data, leading projects, and communicating clearly across functions.
- Ideally experience with Salesforce and SAP, combined with a commercial or product management background within the healthcare industry.
- Strong analytical skills with advanced Excel capability, a data-driven mindset, and experience translating complex data into clear business insights.
- Ability to manage projects and deliver results in cross-functional environments, with experience in supply chain, planning, or similar areas considered an advantage.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills, fluency in English, strong stakeholder management abilities, and willingness to travel occasionally.
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The anticipated base compensation range for this position is €49,000 - €73,250 annually. The actual base pay offered to the successful candidate will be based on objective, job-related factors including (but not limited to) relevant skills, qualifications, and experience, scope and responsibilities of the role, geographic location, and internal equity considerations. Compensation decisions are made using consistent and gender-neutral criteria, in line with applicable pay transparency laws. This role has been evaluated within our internal job architecture and mapped to a defined pay band to ensure consistency and fairness.
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Your Benefits:
- Generous annual bonus and pension Schemes.
- Save As You Earn share options.
- Work/Life Balance: Flexible Vacation and Time Off, Paid Holidays and Paid Volunteering Hours, so we can give back to our communities!
- Your Wellbeing: Private Health and Dental plans, Healthcare Cash Plans, Income Protection, Life Assurance and much more.
- Flexibility: Hybrid Working Model (For most professional roles).
- Training: Hands-On, Team-Customised, Mentorship.
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Smith+Nephew is a global medical technology company. We design and manufacture technology that takes the limits off living. We support healthcare professionals to return their patients to health and mobility, helping them to perform at their fullest potential. From our first employee and founder, T.J. Smith, to our team today, it’s our people who make Smith+Nephew a unique place. Yes, we love to innovate and develop exciting technologies, and we offer competitive salaries and progressive benefits. But it’s our culture - of Care, Collaboration and Courage - that really sets us apart. Through a spirit of ownership and can-do attitude we work together to win. We’re a company of people who care about each other, about our customers and their patients, and about our communities. Together, we fulfill our shared purpose of Life Unlimited.
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